Wednesday Video Spotlight: Flaming Lips with Lightning Bolt, “I’m Working at NASA on Acid”
Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips recently worked with Providence, R.I.-based experimental rockers Lightning Bolt on a 12-inch, four-track collaborative release. They’ve released another music video from that collaboration, “I’m Working at NASA on Acid.”
Last month, the bands presented the collaborative video “I Wanna Get High But I Don’t Want Brain Damage.” To watch it, click here.
Between the Lips’ New Year’s resolution to release lots of new music in 2011 and multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd’s Neil Diamond-esque new side project You In Me, it’s been a veritable bonanza of videos from the Lips’ camp lately. I’m in no way complaining; my ears and eyes are quite content with this rather musical state of affairs.
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Video: You In Me, “Hot Coffee (And Mornin’ Lovin’)”
A week ago, Flaming Lips multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd and singer/filmmaker Alan Novey teamed up to bring us “The Drifter.” Now, the duo, dubbed You In Me, brings more Neil Diamond-y brilliance to our Friday with “Hot Coffee (And Mornin’ Lovin’).”
Again, the video was filmed by Delo Creative.
If Drozd and Novey were to release one of these crooner-ific collaborations every Friday indefinitely, it would not hurt my feelings one bit.
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Flaming Lips to make-up stormed-out Brady Block Party show with two-night stand inside Tulsa’s Brady Theater
Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips have announced a two-night stand Sept. 13 and 14 inside Tulsa’s Brady Theater that will serve as the make-up dates for the band’s canceled Brady Block Party show. All Brady Block Party tickets will be honored during this ticket exchange, paid and complimentary.
Exchanges must be made in person between the hours of 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26 or Saturday, Aug. 27 at the Brady Theater Box Office, 105 W Brady. Fans must present their original tickets in exchange for new tickets and may choose either reschedule date – Sept. 13 or 14 – during their exchange. Tickets are available on a first come first served basis.
The Lips and Primus were scheduled to be the headliners Aug. 6 at the inaugural Brady Block Party. Despite triple-digit temperatures most of the afternoon, other featured bands such as Mutemath, Civil Twilight and AWOLnation went on as scheduled. But as evening set in, heavy winds and rain pushed through downtown Tulsa, toppling the Lips’ massive video screen, damaging a lot of their equipment and scrapping the rest of the festivities at about 6 p.m. However, no injuries were reported.
For more information on the ticket exchange, go to www.bradytheater.com.
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UPDATED: Video: Flaming Lips rebuild video screen destroyed in Tulsa storm
UPDATE: The Flaming Lips have announced a two-night stand Sept. 13 and 14 inside Tulsa’s Brady Theatre that will serve as the make-up date for the canceled Brady Block Party show. All Brady Block Party tickets will be honored during this ticket exchange, paid and complimentary. Exchanges must be made in person between the hours of 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26 or Saturday, Aug. 27 at Brady Theater Box Office, 105 W Brady. Fans must present their original tickets in exchange for new tickets and may choose either reschedule date – Sept. 13 or 14 – during their exchange. Tickets are available on a first come first served basis. For more information, go to www.bradytheater.com.
Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne and some of the band’s crew talk about rebuilding the video screen that was blown over and demolished during a freak storm earlier this month at the inaugural Brady Block Party in Tulsa.
After the crowd and musicians endured triple-digit temperatures most of the afternoon, heavy winds and rain pushed through downtown Tulsa, toppling the video screen, damaging a lot of their equipment and scrapping the rest of the festivities. However, no injuries were reported.
As Coyne points out in the video, equipment can be rebuilt or replaced, and the Lips’ Tulsa incident can’t compare to the tragedy that happened Saturday at the Sugarland concert at the Indiana State Fair.
The Associated Press reports that a sixth person – Jennifer Haskell, a 22-year-old Ball State University senior – died today of injuries sustained in the Indiana catastrophe. Our thoughts and prayers are with those in Indiana who have lost loved ones, as well as with folks in Belgium affected by the storm that tore through the Pukkelpop outdoor rock festival Thursday evening, killing five people and injuring 140 others.
Earlier this week, Coyne posted on Twitter (@waynecoyne), “Still workin on the make-up show for the rained out Tulsa show!!! Almost there!!!”
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Video: You in Me “The Drifter”
Do yourself a favor and add a Neil Diamond-y shine to your Friday.
Here is an augmented YouTube description of You in Me – “The Drifter”:
When an illustrious rock star (that would be The Flaming Lips multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd) and a golden-throated karaoke phenom (singer Alan Novey, a local filmmaker whose credits include the Oklahoma films “Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo,” “Rainbow Around the Sun,” the Lips documentary “Fearless Freaks” and concert film “UFOs at the Zoo: The Flaming Lips Live in Oklahoma City”) are brought together by an insatiable love for Neil Diamond, the result is “You in Me.” It’s a collaboration so heartfelt, an homage so genuine, and a tribute to love in all it’s forms.
The video was shot at the restaurant Junior’s of Oklahoma City by OKC’s Delo Creative.
There’s a website listed, www.youinme.us, but it just leads back to the YouTube video. There is a tantalizing lack of information here, leaving us all wondering if there will be more sparkling Neil Diamond-esque moments to come.
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Video: Dwelling Spaces in Tulsa hosts baby shower for Flaming Lips gummy fetus
Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips have been even more experimental than usual in 2011, which is really saying something. Frontman Wayne Coyne and a couple of pals have opened a colorful new art gallery called The Womb in Oklahoma City, and Lips have recorded a plethora a new music that they haven’t released on traditional albums but rather on limited edition EPs, iPhone playback and USB drives hidden inside gummy skulls and now inside gummy fetuses.
In honor of the gummy bundles of musical joy, Dwelling Spaces in Tulsa hosted a baby shower for a Flaming Lips gummy fetus that, of course, ended with everyone gnawing off a hunk of cherry-flavored gummy candy off the faux infant until they could get to the prize inside. The jump drive includes three new songs, “Enthusiasm For Life Defeats Existential Fear Part 2,” “Steven’s Moonbow” and “Squishy Glass.”
The Lips will be in Tulsa Saturday when they headline the inaugural Brady District Block Party. The event will feature special guest Primus, along with bands Mutemath, Civil Twilight, AWOLnation, Solid Gold, Particle, That 1 Guy, The Pretty Black Chains. For tickets and information, go to www.bradyblockparty.com. The block party is scheduled from noon to 11:30 p.m. Saturday at the corner of Boulder and Cameron in downtown Tulsa.
Coyne recently chatted with The Oklahoman’s Gene Triplett about the Brady District Block Party and the band’s especially adventuresome year. To read the interview, click here.
Also, the grand opening of The Womb, 9th and Broadway in Automobile Alley, is set for 7 tonight.
Coyne won’t be at the opening because he is on tour, but he said he has invited several famous people to attend tonight’s soiree. And he said patrons might even be treated to a special arrival from Edmond’s freestyle BMX star Mat Hoffman via his flying jet pack.
To read The Oklahoman’s Heather Warlick-Moore’s feature on The Womb, click here.
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Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne talks The Womb gallery opening tonight in Oklahoma City, Brady District Block Party Saturday in Tulsa
Wayne Coyne performs with the Flaming Lips at the Tabernacle in Atlanta in May. (Photo by Michelle Martin-Coyne)
Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips have a busy weekend planned in their home state.
At 7 tonight, The Womb, a colorful new gallery space at 9th and Broadway in Automobile Alley, opens. Lips frontman Wayne Coyne and a couple of his good friends, Rick Sinnett and Jake Harms, have pooled their creative and financial resources to open the new gallery.
In an interview with The Oklahoman’s Heather Warlick-Moore, Sinnett, a native Oklahoma painter who is on a mission with Harms to paint 11 giant murals along Route 66, said he and Coyne, who are longtime friends, came up with the idea for The Womb one day while visiting over a cup of coffee at Coffee Slingers in Automobile Alley.
The grand opening of The Womb art gallery in Automobile Alley is at 7 tonight. (Photo by Zach Gray, The Oklahoman)
“We know that we love art, we love art galleries and museums and this and that … but they’ve kind of become mundane,” Sinnett said, reflecting on that conversation for Heather. “We know what we don’t like, and we want to create an atmosphere that’s a little more engaging. We don’t know exactly how or what it is that we’re looking for, but we know we’re looking for something just a little more engaging and invigorating.
“I don’t want to make it seem like we don’t appreciate all the little art spaces and galleries that are already in Oklahoma City. But for me, I want something that is just more radical,” Coyne said in a recent interview with The Oklahoman’s Gene Triplett. “We don’t have anybody to answer to other than our own tastes. That to me is what it really is about.”
Coyne personally invited New York artist Maya Hayuk to come to OKC to paint the psychedelic mural on the gallery’s facade.
Inside, artist Bigfoot has been creating the gallery’s first big installation all week, preparing for the gallery’s grand opening at 7 tonight. For more information about the gallery, go to http://wombgallery.com.
“This is just an extension of how I live anyway, having this gallery,” Coyne said. “It’s about art and ideas and about people with energy. … I would say it’s kind of a futuristic, psychedelic art space … hopefully full of energy and ideas.”
Coyne won’t be at the opening because he is on tour, but he said he has invited several famous people to attend tonight’s soiree. And he said patrons might even be treated to a special arrival from Edmond’s freestyle BMX star Mat Hoffman via his flying jet pack.
However, Coyne will be in his home state Saturday when the Lips headline the inaugural Brady District Block Party in Tulsa. The event will feature special guest Primus, along with bands Mutemath, Civil Twilight, AWOLnation, Solid Gold, Particle, That 1 Guy, The Pretty Black Chains. For tickets and information, go to www.bradyblockparty.com.
The block party is scheduled from noon to 11:30 p.m. Saturday at the corner of Boulder and Cameron in downtown Tulsa. In his interview with Gene, Coyne gushed about the fun the Lips are having touring with the newly re-formed Primus, one of the most popular cult bands of the ’90s.
“These shows that we’re playing with Primus, everywhere we’ve gone with them, these are mega-shows,” Coyne told Gene. “We’re playing a show in Red Rock (Morrison, Colo.) to 10,000 people, 10,000 people in Kansas City. These are big events. So I’m urging everybody to go to Tulsa to see this.
“Even though it’s not like the Weezer show, it’s a kind of a once-in-a-lifetime thing. Primus has gotten back together. I don’t know if they’ll stay together or if they’ll end the group … but it’s a big deal to see them. And for us and them to play together. They’re another group that’s been trying to get us to do some shows with them for quite a few years, and we know Les Claypool from here and there.
“And it’s a great thing for this show to be able to come to Oklahoma. It’s a big deal. Everybody should just come up and party with us on a Saturday night in Tulsa. I mean we haven’t played Tulsa since Dfest in 2007. And plus we don’t get to play outside very often because a lot of times we’re playing the New Year’s Eve thing and it’s too cold then.
“So we get to play outside, and we all get to smoke pot and have fun, and it’s a Saturday night and I think it should be marvelous. I think by the time we play at 10 o’clock at night it should be a great part of the night. So let’s say (expletive) the weather. If the people in Long Island can sit through an hour of a monsoon last night, certainly the people in Oklahoma can all just run around naked for a couple of hours. That would be my suggestion.”
The chief Lip also chatted with Gene at length about the band’s recent two-night stand literally sharing the stage with Weezer at New York’s Jones Beach amphitheater.
“Well, I’d say it was marvelous,” Coyne told Gene about the shared show with Weezer. “You don’t really know what the Weezer fans are gonna think of the Flaming Lips. I always know that the Flaming Lips fans, you know, they just love music and experiences; whatever’s in front of ‘em, that’s great. We didn’t know what the Weezer fans would think, but I think it turned out great.”
To read more of Gene’s interview with the always-intriguing Coyne, click here.
To read more of Heather’s story about The Womb, click here.
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Video: Behind the scenes of the Flaming Lips’ “I Wanna Get High But I Don’t Want Brain Damage” video
Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips recently worked with Providence, R.I.-based experimental rockers Lightning Bolt on a 12-inch, four-track collaborative release. The trippy-as-you-should-expect music video for one of their joint efforts, “I Wanna Get High But I Don’t Want Brain Damage,” was crafted by Oklahoma City’s Delo Creative and is now available to barrage your senses – in a good way.
In addition, Delo Creative has released a brief behind-the-scenes video of head Lip Wayne Coyne, whose mouth dominates the music video. (I shouldn’t have to tell you this because it’s Wayne Coyne, but this making-of video is probably NSFW. I guess it depends on where you work, but the name of the song should be some indication of where Wayne’s stream-of-consciousness conversation is going here.)
The Lips are set to headline the inaugural Brady District Block Party Saturday, Aug. 6 in the Tulsa arts district. The event also will feature Primus, Mutemath, Civil Twilight, AWOLNATION and more. Click here for more information.
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Flaming Lips, Primus, Mutemath and more to play first Brady District Block Party Aug. 6 in Tulsa
The Flaming Lips (Photo by J. Michelle Martin-Coyne)
The Flaming Lips, Primus, Mutemath, Civil Twilight, AWOLNATION, Solid Gold, Particle, That 1 Guy and The Pretty Black Chains will play the inaugural Brady District Block Party Saturday, Aug. 6 in the Tulsa arts district.
The outdoor music festival, presented by Shamrock Communications radio station Z-104.5 The Edge (KMYZ) and DCF Concerts, is intended to become an annual event, according to a news release.
The concert will take place at the Brady Village, the fenced in field on the corner of Cameron Street and Boulder Avenue. Gates will open at noon, and the music will start at 12:30 p.m.
Due to this summer’s record-setting heat wave, precautions have been put in place to make the concert experience safe and enjoyable for attendees, according to the release. Provisions will be available inside of the festival area and outside for cooling down the crowds.
Misting tents will available. In addition, plenty of concessions and water will also be available for purchase. Crowds will be sprayed often with water from the stage to cool down.
Medic tents will be available for patrons experiencing dizziness, nausea, weakness, muscle cramps or other heat-related symptoms. Two tents staffed with medics will be set up on opposing sides of the venue.
Re-entry will be allowed with ticket and wristband. Attendees must go through the appropriate check point where their ticket will be punched and wristband will be issued. No re-entry without the punched ticket and wristband on/attached will be allowed.
No blankets, ice chests or umbrellas will be permitted. Smart phones that take photos will be permitted, but no professional cameras will be allowed. Attendees are strongly encouraged to stay hydrated, use sunscreen and wear hats to avoid overheating.
Identification will be necessary for purchase of beer or other alcoholic beverages. Special wristbands will be provided with proper ID.
Tickets are on sale in Tulsa at Reasor’s and Starship Records, in Oklahoma City at Buy For Less Locations, by phone (866) 977-6849 or online at www.bradyblockparty.com for $39 plus service fees. The block party is an all-ages event.
For more information, go to www.bradyblockparty.com or www.edgetulsa.com.
See more on the bands playing the first Brady District Block Party after the break.
Video: Flaming Lips play “Do You Realize??” with Edward Sharpe and Magnetic Zeroes at Hollywood Cemetery
Last month, Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips played two shows at the Hollywood Forever cemetery next to the Paramount Studios lot in Hollywood. We’re finally getting a glimpse of those shows with this video of the Lips playing Oklahoma’s state rock song “Do You Realize??” with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes.
In addition to housing to the bodies of legendary stars like Cecil B. DeMille, Johnny Ramone, John Huston, Bugsy Siegel and Fay Wray, Hollywood Forever also serves as an outdoor film venue, art exhibitor and concert venue, according to the Los Angeles Times, which chatted with Lips frontman Wayne Coyne prior to the June shows.
“It’s got a lot of appeal to it, especially for us,” lead singer Wayne Coyne told the L.A. Times on the phone from the band’s Oklahoma City headquarters, “because we sing a lot about this idea of ‘death’ — this idea of happiness and the realization of death, and what do we do with that? So there are a lot of great, powerful themes that you can play into as far as what it means to do all this stuff.”
The band was planning to perform two classic albums, the Lips’ own “The Soft Bulletin” and Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon,” on successive nights Tuesday and tonight. The Lips debuted both those album concerts in successive years here in OKC at their annual New Year’s Eve Freakout.
Wiley Wayne had something special in mind for “Do You Realize??,” and from the looks of the video, his grand plans came to fruition quite nicely.
“They said, ‘Wayne, you can use anything here you want to do the show. They showed me the bell tower, and your mind immediately goes to some, ‘Of course, the Flaming Lips could do something.’ You kind of think of it as like the way that John and Yoko did the bed-in for peace — and people would just show up and we do this great rendition of ‘Do You Realize?’ while the sun comes up and everybody’s taking acid or something. I thought, why don’t we try?”
The video was shot by the folks at Oklahoma City-based Delo Creative.
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